Alligator Alcatraz is closing because it costs too much

Alligator Alcatraz costs $1 million a day to run. DeSantis is now confirming talks to close it. The same guy who opened it as a political stunt — press conferences, flyovers, the whole thing — is now quietly negotiating its closure because it costs too much. The button: the detainees aren't going free. They're just getting transferred somewhere cheaper. The cruelty was never the point. The photo op was.

Video format fits the punchy, single-beat delivery — one named politician, one specific dollar figure, one clean reversal. Builds on the existing Everglades post but reframes it as DeSantis hypocrisy rather than the facility itself.

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